Taliban’s bomb haul destroyed

ELITE British troops have found and destroyed a monster cache of Taliban
explosives in a life-saving desert triumph.

The quarter-ton haul in Afghanistan would have been enough to blast off “30
pairs of legs”, bomb experts said.

The deadly hoard, along with pressure plates to turn it into lethal booby-trap
bombs, was found by troops from A Squadron, The Light Dragoons, Brigade
Reconnaissance Force. They chanced on it hidden in a ditch — or wadi — in
the Taliban’s backyard of Nahr-e Saraj, Helmand.

He told how they moved in under cover after spotting a blue tarpaulin in the
wadi. He said: “I didn’t want anyone watching to realise what was going on,
so we quickly dropped off six men then moved off in our vehicles to keep the
dust screen moving.”

British bomb disposal experts blew the haul sky high — captured in these
exclusive photos taken by troops on the ground last week.

Tpr Jamie McCartney, 23, who uncovered the stash, said: “Finding this stuff
has had a huge impact on the enemy’s ability to strike us and the local
people.